Pain: Do I need to experience it to understand it?

With the passage of time

“But it pains when I move the arm” “Don’t worry Mrs. Sagar, it will improve with the passage of time” In the afternoon when I was in my retiring room, I wondered how easy it is to say, “It will improve with the passage of time.” What about the person who is actually bearing the pain? Only he or she knows the pain.

Pain……What is this?????

Pain, in the sense of physical pain, is a typical sensory experience that may be described as the unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus or bodily harm. Suffering, or pain, is an individual's basic affective experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm.Suffering may be qualified as physical or mental. It may come in all degrees of intensity, from mild to intolerable. Factors of duration and frequency of occurrence usually compound that of intensity. In addition to such factors, people's attitudes toward suffering may take into account how much it is, in their opinion, avoidable or unavoidable, useful or useless, deserved or undeserved.All sentient beings suffer during their lives, in diverse manners, and often dramatically. As a result, many fields of human activity are concerned, from their own points of view, with some aspects of suffering. These aspects may include its nature and processes, its origin and causes, its meaning and significance, its related personal, social, and cultural behaviors, its remedies, management, and uses. Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment. Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life. The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear. "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." "The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain." Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. There is no coming to consciousness without pain. He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.